There's a new branch now available for some testing at the following SVN URL:
http://svn.digium.com/asterisk/team/bweschke/originate_w_jabber/

This branch is based on the 1.4 branch and has had the res_jabber module that was in /trunk back-ported to it.

So, we've gone ahead and put up a patch to integrate the new MixMonitor functionality introduced with 1.2 in app_queue as an alternative to the old Monitor functionality. Please take a visit to http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=7084 and give it a whirl.

I started this branch tonight at

http://svn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/team/bweschke/queue_improvements/

The original objective of it was to allow one to specify an AGI script to fire off on the caller's channel right before that channel got bridged with the queue member.